Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 31
Another story is that the screech-owl is a nun who was false to her vows, and left her convent to follow Hackelberg.
Who acts: story, nun · What happens: be, leave, follow, vow · To what, where: nun, convent, Hackelberg
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, nun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nun | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nun | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 nun | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owl | det |
| 6 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 owl | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 screech | punct |
| 8 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nun | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nun | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nun | det |
| 11 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 false | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 false | cop |
| 14 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nun | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 vows | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 vows | nmod:poss |
| 17 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 false | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nun | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 convent | nmod:poss |
| 22 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 follow | mark |
| 24 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 left | advcl |
| 25 | Hackelberg | Hackelberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 follow | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 nun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | another story | a nun | the screech owl nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | a nun | to nun's vows; false property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | nun's convent | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent convent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | Hackelberg | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hackelberg=Theme | |||||
| 5 | vow | nun | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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